Water and Ice 19? 



It follows directly from these simple but 

 undeniable facts that the sources of our ice 

 supply should be carefully scrutinized in the 

 interests of the public health. But, unfor- 

 tunately, under the influence of the old idea 

 that water was thoroughly purified by freez- 

 ing, it has become the general practice of 

 many of the dealers to get their ice from 

 almost any source, however unclean, which 

 is near or accessible enough to the market to 

 afford a profit. 



However, the typhoid bacilli gradually die 

 off in ice so that after several months it may 

 have purified itself. While this is reassuring, 

 it is not enough. 



Ice should not be cut, at least when it is 

 to be used for drinking purposes, from any 

 source which would not be good if it were 

 used for drinking unfrozen. 



The dumping of city garbage in vacant lots 

 or in the water in the vicinity of towns is one 

 of those barbaric fly-breeding practices which 

 strangely enough still widely prevails in spite 

 of the fact that both efficient and cheap 

 apparatus for burning it are well known and 



